Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Carol Baxter:

My colleague, Ms Rooney, will talk about beneficiaries of temporary protection.

On the IP side, we have co-located the HSE and the Tusla education support services, which work with us to identify mainstream service needs. We have secured funding and the Department is finalising arrangements with local authorities for integration officers to be appointed to every local authority, again to support the process of accessing mainstream services and promote the integration process. We have secured funding also for an integration fund-----